"What happened last week is typical," said George Stafford, UGA's associate vice president for auxiliary and administrative services. "It takes 200 to 300 people on Sunday morning to pick up and bag up all the trash, throw it on a truck and haul it out to the landfill. A typical day game produces 35 to 40 tons of trash. A night SEC game like this we have 70 or more tons."

Sometimes we can be doctrinaire and complain that small steps are pointless. But clearly these students at the University of Georgia have trouble putting one foot in front of the other, let alone taking small steps toward sustainability.